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3 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
No, he means the UK version of the RCD - the Recreational Craft Regulations. Same thing, different title page.
Point of order...
I'm pretty sure the RCR is a good deal more restrictive than the RCD.
I expect Alan will be able post reams more stuff on the extra requirements in RCR than I could!
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4 minutes ago, Bod said:
Does the pipe meet the BSSC standard?
Bod
BSSC = Boat Safety Scheme Certificate
Don't confuse things. This is nothing to do with the BSSC!
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14 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
We voted out of the EU in 2016, but also adopted the 'new regulations' in 2017 which is where much of these new requirements came from and went thru Parliament as "The Recreational Craft Regulations 2017" then amended by the "Product Safety and Metrology. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019".
Which seemed to come as a shock for all the leavers, who believed the lies about "A bonfire of EU regulations" should we leave.
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30 minutes ago, Higgs said:
Well, there's no law that says anyone needs a 'formal' mooring
Actually there is.
1995 British Waterways Act 17(c)
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(i)the Board are satisfied that a mooring or other place where the vessel can reasonably be kept and may lawfully be left will be available for the vessel, whether on an inland waterway or elsewhere; or
(ii)the applicant for the relevant consent satisfies the Board that the vessel to which the application relates will be used bona fide for navigation throughout the period for which the consent is valid without remaining continuously in any one place for more than 14 days or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances.
Yes there is an exemption in (ii) for boats being "used bona fide for navigation throughout the period for which the consent is valid", but boats CMing do not pass this test.
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1 hour ago, Lady M said:
The underlying issue is that the intentions of a poorly worded law are being misused on a scale that adversely impacts home moorers and is increasing. Surcharging may make some think twice. This is the same approach as charging extra for widebeam boat licences.
Adversely impacts the canals I'd suggest, by providing a massive financial incentive for boaters to keep their boats out on the public towpath rather than on a formal mooring.
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10 hours ago, IanD said:
Us taxpayers. Unfortunately we don't get to decide where they spend our taxes... :--(
Do you hold that changing the management would help then?
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4 hours ago, IanD said:
But trying to push the blame onto CART or NHS management (or staff!) conveniently draws attention away from the real culprit, which is insufficient government funding... 😞
Good point.
But remind me, where does the government get its funds from?
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29 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
I felt a bit miffed paying to take my boat to Cavelcade and mooring outside someone who was moored for free
And I bet you didn't pay an extra £4k!
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4 hours ago, IanD said:
It's easy to say "bring in new management, they'll do better" but it won't change CARTs financial problems --
But CRT, Parry et al ARE the new management. All the same criticisms used to get levelled at BW and CRT with a new chief executive were created as a new broom to sweep clean. Ever since the get-go they have done little better than BW, AFAICS.
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And of course property has two different returns. The valuation going up and down is a market thing, beyond the control of CRT.
The rent is a different income stream however and collecting the rent is very much within the control of CRT.
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18 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
And why the standard railway gauge is 4' 8 5/8".
It was the width of the wheel ruts from the horse drawn carts.
That sounds a bit like an urban myth to me.
Did they really make the width of all horse-drawn carts the same? And why 4ft 8 5/8in in particular? And even if they did, why would they make the railway lines match? All a bit of a puzzle really.
Besides, standard railway gauge was 4ft 8 1/2in when I was a kid...
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1 hour ago, Captain Pegg said:
Which you do because you want security, don’t wish to move every 14 days and can afford the fee.
No thats's not it at all. I do it because those are the rules.
Society has framework for setting rules (laws) for everyone to abide by, which helps everyone get along together. When too many people ignore the rules society begins to break down.
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5 hours ago, LadyG said:
Regardless, always draw enough water to clear the tap and the sranding pipe.
Or fill it through a tea strainer...
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11 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:
But why do some boaters get so worked up about how far and how often other boaters move?
When you're paying £4k for your CRT home mooring and one boat after another spends months on end moored opposite you paying nothing, one begins to feel a bit of an idiot for paying the £4k.
Hope that helps explain...
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3 hours ago, RS2021 said:
There's a story about the size of the Space Shuttles boosters being based on the size of a Roman horse's back end...
Google it if you haven't read it.
A couple of weeks or so late for that, surely?
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4 hours ago, David Mack said:
Can you imagine the hoohah NBTA would make if they were 'banned' from having a stall at Cavalcade? Better to have them inside the tent p*ssing out, than outside p*ssing in.
Trouble with NBTA though, is they p*ss all over everything indiscriminately.
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There is an area in Woking, Surrey called Shearwater, and the Basingstoke runs right through it. Main claim to fame is Paul Weller grew up there.
The Basy there is however, only about 30ft wide!
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1 minute ago, IanD said:
No, according to a certain poster you and I (and others) can't possibly be right about this, it's only a problem in that there Lunnon... 😉
A CCer who never stays in one place for more than two weeks is by definition ill-equipped to observe and comment on the problem of long term VM-hogging.
Unless of course they are actually CMing.
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1 hour ago, IanD said:
By seeing them regularly on the towpaths and moorings round here, obviously... 😉
Same here.
I live 100 yards from the canal and drive over the same canal bridge every day. The the 48hr VM visible from the bridge have been occupied by the same two widebeams for almost as long as I can remember. Certainly many months. The third space on the 48hr VM is also usually occupied by one boat or another and I'd say the average stay on that third space is typically about a month.
People who have the opportunity to observe the same bit of canal day in, day out for long periods are far better placed to spot CMing than boaters on a cruise.
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22 hours ago, jacko264 said:
I may have missed it but did you get the water out the tap or from a hose pipe ?
Pretty sure the water in the photo with bugs in came directly from the water tap. Back on 24th Feb 2024 the OP said this:
"Oh sorry if I didn’t make this clear. This water has come straight from the shore point and is going straight into a kilner jar with a tap, which I get glasses of drinking water from. "
So I think the photo is of the Kilner jar having just been filled from the CRT water tap.
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Great-looking boat!
(Needs a bow fender, by the way.)
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4 hours ago, Mike Todd said:
I thought that there was a mechanism to be invoked if CaRT become non-viable - ie they cannot fulfil their duties.
But can you devise a system for collecting that does not cost more than £10 a night? (or, more realistically £1 a night of it is to make a difference)
Yes that's easy. CRT asks "Do you have a home mooring?"
Answer no and that means you must be mooring out on the towpath all year round so a bill is issued for 365 nights at £10 a night. Cheap and easy. I can't imagine that costing £10, let alone £10 a night.
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3 hours ago, wandering snail said:
Are you referring to 'bags for life'?
Friend of mine makes a rather un-PC joke about them - involving some advice about never getting married lol!
RCD
in General Boating
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So what? The thread is asking about passing the RCD.